Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched, as prospectors in the Old West so frequently died, in the 20th century rush for the new glamor metal, uranium...
...sprouted furiously over most of the U.S., Ayerst Laboratories began distributing a protective cream, Kerodex, which has saved gangs of railroad section workers from the itch. For both prevention and treatment of ivy poisoning, the National Lead Co. was boosting Zotox, in which an oxide of the wonder metal zirconium neutralizes the irritating factor urushiol...
...time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones as a Northrop subsidiary; and chairman of the Holga Metal Products Co. (steel filing cabinets) of Van Nuys, Calif. A Northrop director since 1952, when Radioplane merged with the company, Collins replaces the late Major General Oliver P. Echols, USAF...
Normalcy and fear. The danger to Hanoi was scarcely visible. The streets were still chockablock with cyclos (cycle taxis, 14? a ride). Shrimp and snail vendors crouched behind their tiny stalls clacking metal scissors-the noisy symbol of their trade. Almond-skinned girls in straw hats and pajamalike silk costumes strolled hand-in-hand to school, and at midnight there was the customary flood of drunken soldiers and giggling tarts as the taxi-dance joints closed down...
...Christian betterment-the Earl of Hazelhurst, drunk as a lord, and enraged with his mother to the point of suicide for having robbed him of the moral support of a saintly young friend. Yelling and storming, the earl hurls himself through the window and hangs teetering, "cradled between the metal stanchions of an awning...